Former UNC Player Barnes to Pay for Texas Shooting Victim’s Funeral
Former Tar Heel basketball standout Harrison Barnes and his wife, Brittany Barnes, said Thursday...
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Dallas
Jury Convicts Ex-Police Officer Who Fatally Shot Neighbor
A white former Dallas police officer who said she fatally shot her unarmed, black neighbor after mistaking his apartment for her own was found guilty of murder on Tuesday. A jury reached the verdict in Amber Guyger’s...
Read MoreThe Whole Nation Looks at 3 North Carolina Connected Authors
Three recent books with North Carolina connections have gained national recognition. You should certainly know about them. Tim Gautreaux is widely admired in our state’s literary community. For instance, popular Hillsborough...
Read More“Aerotropolis.” Is it for us?
“Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.” Yogi Berra’s seemingly contradictory wisdom could be a subtitle for a new book about airports and the surrounding landscapes that grow up around them. “Aerotropolis: The...
Read More“They are trying to eat Big Bird”
The hundreds of William Friday’s friends and fans who gathered to hear him speak last week might not have guessed that the institutions he worked so hard to build were threatened by the just-released legislative budget...
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